Ex-Enness brokers, Antonio Michael and Oliver Hines-Lloyd are set to launch a brokerage targeting the opportunities the prospect of Brexit is already presenting for foreign nationals and expats keen to buy in the UK property market.
The City-based mortgage and insurance brokerage will launch in September and the directors are keen to attract residential, buy-to-let, refurbishment and bridging mortgage customers.
The adviser firm will be headed up by Antonio Michael (pictured) with Oliver Hines-Lloyd serving as director.
Michael’s C.V includes time as head of private office at Enness, Largemortgageloans.com, John Charcol and Countrywide, while Hines-Lloyd has served at Enness and deVere Group.
The firm is looking for a typical loan size of £500,000, according to reports, and referrals from industry professionals including estate agents, solicitors, tax advisers, and accountants.
The broker is looking to charge a fee of 0.65 per cent per transaction and Michael said: “I decided to launch Articus Finance to focus on residential and bridging finance.
“We feel the need for bridging finance will increase over the next year given the political uncertainty and this is where my knowledge and relationships with key lenders will allow me to act fast for our clients.”
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.
